“Outsider. Hero. Rogue. And the one man you want on your side.” That’s how global best-selling author Bernard Cornwell’s most famous hero, Richard Sharpe, is described as he resurfaces for the first ...

Arthurian literature may be a worldwide cottage industry, but Cornwell, author of the Sharpe series of historical military adventures (Sharpe's Battle, etc.) stands out from the crowd with this ...

BERNARD CORNWELL, 73, is the author of the Sharpe novels which were made into a TV series starring Sean Bean. His books about Saxon England, The Last Kingdom, have also been adapted for television.

"So Sharpe and Harper will march again." Thus ended Sharpe's Havoc, the previous (19th) volume in Cornwell's series, and Sharpe aficionados will rejoice that the prophecy has been fulfilled. In ...

Bernard Cornwell, one of the world’s bestselling historical novelists, author of more than 50 books with 25 million sales around the world, recently came out with 'Sharpe's Assassin' - the book 21 in ...

Firstly, Cornwell is reviving one of his most beloved characters: Uhtred of Bebbanburg, the Saxon warlord who carves a bloody ...

Bernard Cornwell has no sympathy for fools in positions of power, in real life or fiction. Today his target is clear, as he ponders the human need for escapism — a longing that has driven millions to ...

Born in 1944, Cornwell--who now lives in the United States with his American wife--was recently reunited with his natural father, and also with his mother, who gave him up for adoption nearly 60 years ...

When you begin a new book, what comes first, plot or characters? 95 per cent of a book is finding a plot. I never know what’s going to happen and for me, one of the joys of writing is finding out what ...

Bernard Cornwell reveals he is retiring his favourite hero, Uhtred from The Last Kingdom, but another will be back after a 15-year absence from the bloodstained blockbusters that made his name.